The Impact of Megaprojects on Branding Ethiopia as an Appealing Tourist Destination
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of megaprojects on a destination branding and then proceeds to examine cognitive, affective and unique image and their significance as perceived by tourists. A multi stage sample of 400 external publics was surveyed. Factor analysis together with SEM is used and tested whether and how much the influencing factors predicted a significant amount of the variance in travel. The result shows Megaprojects have largest significant effect on cognitive, affective and unique image development. And there is a strong relationship between mega infrastructural facilities development and perceived destination image.
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Published
2019-04-15
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GIRMA, Mulugeta; SINGH, Manjit.
The Impact of Megaprojects on Branding Ethiopia as an Appealing Tourist Destination.
Journal of Environmental Management and Tourism, [S.l.], v. 9, n. 8, p. 1733-1744, apr. 2019.
ISSN 2068-7729.
Available at: <https://journals.aserspublishing.eu/jemt/article/view/3118>. Date accessed: 04 dec. 2024.
doi: https://doi.org/10.14505//jemt.v9.8(32).12.
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